Randy Garutti knows street food: He been Shake Shack’s chief executive officer since its inception as a hot dog cart in New York’s Madison Square Park. But when Garutti visits Tokyo, which boasts seven of the country’s 13 Shake Shack locations, he makes sure to sample all aspects of traditional Japanese cuisine. The following interview […]
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Untimely rainfall and hailstorms have battered winter-sown crops, including wheat, rapeseed, and chickpeas in India’s main producing areas, delaying harvesting, industry and government officials told Reuters. Adverse weather could limit growth in wheat production and complicate the government’s efforts to build stocks. This year’s wheat harvest is critical for India, the world’s biggest producer of […]
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As Crown Price Mohammed bin Salman is leading the charge to make Saudi Arabia an economic and industrial hub by pursuing a strategy designed to minimise the country’s dependence on oil through economic diversification, a latest survey on Tuesday showed that non-oil business activity in Saudi Arabia rebounded in February – supported by the fastest […]
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A stronger-than-expected US economy is buoying the dollar, frustrating investors who had bet the currency would wilt under a barrage of interest rate cuts that have yet to materialise. The dollar index, which measures the buck against a basket of its peers, is up 2.4 per cent year-to-date. Net bets on the dollar in futures […]
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Ishaq Dar – a close aide of PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif – was missing when Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif chaired a meeting of economic team on Monday soon after taking oath of his office for a second term. Certainly a huge news from several angles, if Dar isn’t the economic czar in the PML-N government […]
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Russian media last week published an 38-minute audio recording of an intercepted online call between senior German military officials about how to support Ukraine against the Kremlin’s invasion. Germany’s government has confirmed the veracity of the call. This is what the officials discussed and the reactions to the security breach: WHAT WAS DISCUSSED DURING THE […]
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The Maldives has signed a “military assistance” deal with China after ordering Indian troops deployed in the small but strategically-placed archipelago to leave, officials said Tuesday. Some 89 Indian military personnel in the country will be gone by May 10 after having been previously ordered out by pro-China President Mohamed Muizzu, who came to power […]
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Vietnamese capital Hanoi was blanketed by a thick haze of pollution on Tuesday that obscured high-rise buildings and left the city’s nearly nine million people breathing toxic air. The city topped air monitoring website IQAir’s table of the world’s most polluted cities early Tuesday afternoon. Levels of PM2.5 pollutants – cancer-causing microparticles small enough to […]
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President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are poised to move much closer to winning their party’s nominations during the biggest day of the primary campaign on Tuesday, setting up a historic rematch that many voters would rather not endure. Super Tuesday elections are being held in 16 states and one territory — from […]
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A top Vietnamese property tycoon went on trial Tuesday along with dozens of others, accused of embezzling $12.5 billion in the country’s biggest ever fraud case. Truong My Lan, chair of major developer Van Thinh Phat, is said to have swindled the cash from Saigon Commercial Bank (SCB) over the course of a decade, leaving […]
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